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  • 26 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Baker Library's Latest Collection: Little Black Library

Little Black Library was perfect,” said Stark. “This is not Baker Library saying, ‘These are the books you should read,’ this is Cathy’s work. We’re not collaborating, we’re supporting a student-led initiative. It gives our students agency over this topic.” Though... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

A Constructive Summer at HBS

budget constraints squelched plans for bell towers on the river residence halls. "It's good to see the Baker Library cupola returned to its original splendor," says Moffatt, who notes that the Cotting House cupola - which does not have a... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • April 1999 (Revised September 2001)
  • Case

Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones

By: Paul A. Gompers
Provides students with an opportunity to use simple real options analysis to value a startup. Penelope Phillips is deciding whether to start a company to make wireless phones. Students get experience using traditional discounted cash flow valuation and a real options... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Capital Budgeting; Corporate Finance; Manufacturing Industry; Electronics Industry
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  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Hire an MBA: The Benefits and Misconceptions for Startups

without breaking the bank. The median base salary for an HBS summer intern at a startup was $7,000 per month in 2023. Startups need a recruiting budget and must go through a formal recruiting process All of HBS's recruiting resources are... View Details
Keywords: All Industries; Entrepreneurship
  • Profile

Daniel Serna

standards (and resolved the mystery of "missing" milk output — it turns out the gallon jugs were 1.5 ounces too big). Dan also spent time at AgriMark, a dairy co-operative of 1,400 farmers, where he worked on futures and options-trading strategies, global... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses

book, Becoming American: Why Immigration Is Good for Our Nation's Future, weaves in stories of successful immigrant economists, entrepreneurs, and government advisers while debunking myths that surround immigration. For example, according to the Congressional View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 01 Apr 1997
  • News

An Orchestral Startup

with Yoo hiring topflight young musicians and Lim handling the business end, Metamorphosen came to life with a startup budget of $75,000 raised from charitable donations (the orchestra is a tax-exempt entity), corporate sponsors, program... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
  • May 2008 (Revised June 2009)
  • Case

Finansbank 2006

By: C. Fritz Foley and Linnea Meyer
How do financial policy requirements and benefits of ownership concentration affect the need for and process of corporate restructuring? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze the restructuring of a Turkish multinational business group by way of a... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Capital Budgeting; Agreements and Arrangements; Valuation; Turkey; Greece
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  • May 2013 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

The Kashagan Production Sharing Agreement (PSA)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Florian Bitsch

When discovered in the 1990s, the Kashagan oil field was the second largest oil field in the world. The project sponsors (equity investors) signed a 40-year production sharing agreement (PSA) with the Kazakh government in 1997, with the expectation the field would... View Details

Keywords: Contracts; Oil ＆ Gas; Project Finance; Kazakhstan; Asia; ENI; Risk Management; Economic Development; Project Management; Expropriation; Product Sharing Agreement; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Development Economics; Energy Sources; Capital Budgeting; International Finance; Valuation; Joint Ventures; Energy Industry; Asia; Kazakhstan; Italy
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  • 29 Jan 2021
  • Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)

living expenses were also an adjustment for us. Our monthly budget in Boston was significantly higher than what it had been in Louisiana, for the same standard of living. How did you approach your career search? Was it influenced by... View Details
  • Profile

Kwame Owusu-Kesse

kids." Making progress through greater self-awareness Through his experience at HCZ, Kwame realized he needed "strong, private-sector skills I could bring to the nonprofit world — skills in business strategy, budget maintenance,... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector

your unique professional experience in the public sector at HBS? I have worked on some of the most complex operating challenges facing governments to date, including lack of public trust, deteriorating service delivery, end-of-life systems, loss of skilled talent, and... View Details
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Harvard Business School

HBS Archives Films HBS Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Visiting the Exhibit More Baker Library Exhibits Baker Library Special Collections Name Year Thesis title Harding B. Young (DCS) 1955 The Development and Administration of View Details
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Just Keep Our Money

refund-savers would involve some changes in financial “plumbing” within the Treasury to build a pipeline between the IRS and the Bureau of the Public Debt, but it would not require a new bureaucracy, a new annual budget item, or even... View Details
Keywords: Peter Tufano; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?

When the financial crisis hit in 2008, it became apparent that many states had played fast and loose with their pension funding. Some states slashed benefits, others contemplated bankruptcy. You might think state governments, burned badly once, would be eager to clean... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • Portrait Project

Tony Deifell

"cracks" between worlds - mostly between for profits and nonprofits, trying to blend the best from each. I am the Chief Strategist for KaBOOM! - which envisions a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America. KaBOOM! earns 90% of its... View Details
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”

hell of a good thing," Corzine said. Now that Congress has doubled the SEC's budget under Sarbanes-Oxley, "the SEC can now compete more effectively in the marketplace." Confidence that was lost on all levels during the... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
  • 20 Jul 2015
  • Blog Post

My Journey to Working with At Night Management / PRMD Music

structured summer project plan for me, and they wondered whether they “needed” an MBA level intern. Not to mention, budgets are tight. With some great advice from Harvard friends and faculty, as well as the incredible HBS Media &... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

David M. Hughes

the $1.5-million student activities budget as vice president of student affairs during his senior year. Signing on as a fundraising campaign manager for the United Way of Toronto at the tender age of 23, he supervised scores of volunteers... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 27 Jan 2016
  • Blog Post

A Summer Internship in the Music Industry

structured summer project plan for me, and they wondered whether they “needed” an MBA level intern. Not to mention, budgets are tight. With some great advice from Harvard friends and faculty, as well as the incredible HBS Media &... View Details